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Show Plan Now Speaker Tells C of C "Be alert before it is too late and we lose valuable time and money. Support the Salt Lake planning commission and director now in building for a more sound future." This was the keynote of the talk given by Horace A. Sorensen Wednesday Wed-nesday before a crowded luncheon meeting of the Sugar House chamber cham-ber of commerce. The speaker appealed to his audience to be cognizant of the need for adequate planning which would include rapid transit freeways free-ways and ample parking areas for the growth of industry and business. busi-ness. Recently returned from Detroit where he attended the convention Continued on Page 6 nen to take an active part in the planning of the southeast for the future, and by building strongly on wisely developed plans, everyone would save money in the long run, enjoy a larger business from the outset. The speaker introduced as his special guests, Ralph Sheffield, Salt Lake city and county planning commissioner, and George Smeath, Salt Lake county planning director, who he termed the "father of planning plan-ning in Utah." Both accompanied Sorensen to Detroit, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Can-ada. President L. L. Halverson officiated offi-ciated at the meeting, with Richard Foreman as chairman of the program, pro-gram, and Neal White as entertainment entertain-ment chairman, who presented the Delta Gamma quintet in musical numbers. PLAN IT HOW, C OF C URGED i Continued from Page 1 of the National Society of Planners, Mr. Sorensen told the chamber of the vast J. L. Hudson Company, the outstanding department store in the US and the world. And in discussing this store, the speaker said it is sponsoring the building of a suburban shopping center known as the Northlands which will park 6000 automobiles and provide canopied walkways from store door to door to protect pro-tect patrons from storms and heat. Hudson's, he pointed out, does a business amounting to an average of $100,000 per day, wraps and delivers 10 million packages per year. He then emphazised that this enterprising en-terprising concern was able to conduct con-duct such a huge business because of its foresight and planning, as he urged the Sugar House business- |